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DUST -PAN. No. 276,531. Patented Apr.24,1883.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

N EHEMIAH T. FOLSOM, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO JOHN S.

` FOLSOM, OF VSAME PLACE.

DUST- SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patentl N o. 276,531, datedApril 24, 1883. Application filed December 6, '1882. (No model.)

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, NEHEMIAH T. FoLsoM, of Boston, in the county ofSud'olk and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain Improvementsin Dust-Pans, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has forits object to prevent the forward edge of a.dust-pan from being bent and distorted; and to this end it consists inshoeing or're-enforcing the said edge with a strip of steel orequivalent metal having suf- Iicient elasticity to prevent it from beingindented and bent.

Of the accompanying drawings, forming a part ofthis specification,Figure l represents a top view of a dust-pan embodying my im provement.Fig. 2 represents asection on line m fr, Fig. 1.

The same letters of reference indicate the saine parts in all thetligures.

In carrying out my invention I secure to the front edge of a dust-pan,p,a strip, s, of steel, brass, manganese, bronze, or other material havingsuch a degree of elasticity that it will not readily become indented andwill con form readily to the iioor or other surface from which dust ordirt is to be swept into the pan. The strip or shoe s may be of anydesired form and thickness and may be secured to the. pan by any desiredmeans, as by soldering or riveting. The shoe may be made so thin aslo beliexible or yieldngor may be rigid and inliexible. I have found that a.shoe of the charactrdescribed attached to an ordinary sheet-irondust-pan preserves the edge in shape, and enables the edge to fitclosely on a iioor or other flat surface.

lt is well known that an ordinary dust-pan, having its forward edge ofthe same material as the body of the pan-viz., sheet-iron-Will 4o soonbecome indented and incapable of tting closely against a dat surface.Doubling the thickness of the edge by bending it over upon itself oradding thereto a strip of the same material simply increases thestiffness of the edge 4 5 without preventing it from being indented.

I am aware that dustpans have been stiffened by strengthening plates orribs of soft metal; but this, whileit adds strength, does not preventthe indenting of the edge, so prejudi- 5o cial to this class ofarticles. By combining a blade of sti elastic metal with the edge of thepan, to form practically a continuation of the body, the latter willspring so as to lit close to the surface from which the dust is to be 55taken, and will not bend or buckle` like iron, but will retain the formand preserve that of the pan.

I claim- A dust-pan the forward edge of which con- 6o sists of a bladeof stiff elastic metal secured to and forming a continuation of the bodyof the pan, as setforth.

In testimony whereofl have signed my name to this specilication, in thepresence of two sub- 65 scribing Witnesses, this 25th day of November,1882.

NEHEMIAH T. FOLSOM.

Witnesses:

J. S. FoLsoM, C. F. BROWN.

